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Volume 20, Issue 8

June 2008

In this issue:

UM Staff Advisory Council was formed to provide two-way communication between staff and the
President on pertinent issues. If you have comments
or questions about any subject related to UM System staff, please contact
one of your Council members. They are there for you!

UM Staff Advisory Council Members 2007-2008

Words from the Chair

Greetings to all UM Staff!

Thank you UM President Forsee and staff for providing funding for Staff Recognition Week 2008.  Thank You UM Staff for supporting and participating in Staff Recognition Week 2008.  Your comments on the survey reflect that you had a great week.  The daily activities for SRW 2008 were well received and many of you encourage that same routine in future years. SAC appreciates all that took time to participate in the post survey that was passed out at the annual picnic.  Thoughtful consideration is being given to the suggestions you noted.  For a full report on survey sez,see information included in this newsletter or go to http://sac.umsystem.edu/SRW/index.html

Brief report on numbers in attendance and food collection. 
135 attended UM Staff Thank You Appreciation Breakfast
20 Trivia Teams participated in Trivial Pursuit
40 participated in the two sessions of Embrace Life ~Live Healthy
246 attended Staff Appreciation Award Luncheon
271 attended UM Staff Picnic
560 pounds of food & $254.00 monetary gifts donated to Central Missouri Food Bank

In July 2008, Staff Advisory Council will conduct its annual election of new members on the council.  You will receive a blast email in June notifying you of this nomination.  This year, we have three vacancies.  One position is in the administrative/professional category, which is a three-year term.  Two positions are in the service/support category, also three-year terms.  If you know of someone who would like to be a part of Staff Advisory Council, please consider nominating that person.  If you are interested in being a part of SAC,  self-nominations are always welcome and encouraged.  You can make a difference!

I would like to take this opportunity to extend a sincere thank you again to President Forsee and his staff for supporting Staff Recognition Week 2008.  I also want to express my genuine appreciation to SAC members for making SRW work so well.  Hours of planning, preparation, and implementation went into this year's events.  Without their tireless work, the week would not have been such a wonderful success.  Thank You all for supporting the food collection for Central Missouri Food Bank.  A letter from the food bank is found on SRW website that thanks us and lets us know how appreciative they are for all means of help. 

Warm regards,
Mary Ann




SRW Award Winners 2008 with President Forsee
Doug Kuschel, Krista Young, Karla Dowd, Joe Sanning, Theresa Spaedy, President Forsee (not pictured Jeanne Kelley)
Doug Kuschel
President's Award Winner
Joe Sanning
Administrator's Award
Karla Dowd
Finalist Administrative/Professional Award
Krista Young
Finalist Service/Support Award
Jeanne Kelley
Semi-Finalist Service/Support Award
40 Years of Service
Gloria Collins
35 Years of Service
Blake Danuser & Donna Turner

30 Years of Service
Linda Frech & Barb Harris & Willie Jones & Edward Finnell (photo not available)


25 Years of Service
Luci Fichter & Debra Jones (photo not available)



Trivial Pursuit

Winning Team: Loose Ends


Karen Borgers, Jane Ye, Hannah Lenon, Sarah Anderson, Patrick Kempf, and Susan Burns
Score Table
3 Questions in dispute



Review of the Week Reports

Breakfast
Trivia Report & Thank You Letter from CMFB
Exercise Report
Awards Luncheon Report
Picnic Report

Pictures of SRW...go to http://sac.umsystem.edu/Photos/index.html



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Post survey results of SRW



Election of New Staff Advisory Council Members (nomination form included)

Governing Guidelines (rev 09-19-2006)
Information on eligibility
2008 Nomination Form


Division of IT Converting to New Voice Mail System
Summer 2008

voice mail

Read more about it here: http://doit.missouri.edu/telecom/voice-mail/


Introducing University of Missouri Podcasts

Each Monday the Office of University Communications at the University of Missouri System will host a podcast for current and retired staff and faculty. The podcasts can be accessed on the UM system homepage at http:www.umsystem.edu. You also can subscribe to the Podcasts, enabling them to be downloaded to your computer, iPod, iPhone or other devices. Questions for guests and suggestions for future podcast topics are welcome through the Web site.  

podcast



June 2008 Service Awards

Congratulations to the following UM-System Staff members who have attained these milestones of service

5 Years of Service

Black, Amanda A. ~ MOREnet
Peterson, Rex ~ MOREnet
Young, Krista S. ~ UMKC Procurement Services

10 Years of Service

Anderson, Eric L. ~ MOREnet
Cleek, Bryan C. ~ MOREnet

Hawk, Phyllis W. ~ MOREnet
Long, James E. ~ MOREnet

15 Years of Service

Mcallister, Andrew ~ IT Systems Support

20 Years of Service

Sheahen, David J. ~ Facilities Planning & Development


Website's of Interest this Issue:


Events Calendar - University of Missouri Columbia

Events Calendar - City of Columbia/Chamber of Commerce


Standing Committees

  • Benefits Committee: Chair: Kevin Summers
  • Parking & Transportation Committee: Chair: Toni Henley
  • Staff Awareness Committee: All SAC members serve on this committee
  • Staff Recognition Week: All SAC members serve on this committee

UM-SAC will do our best to keep all UM employee's informed on various topics, issues, and problems that arise during the year. We welcome suggestions from you on issues of interest and look forward to presenting those matters to the entities that can best assist in those matters or make change. If you have any questions, ideas, and/or concerns, please call or email any of the UM-SAC members.

SAC website
Note from Editor!
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Staff Advisory Council meetings are open to all UM System Staff. Meeting times are 8:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m. the second Friday of the month. The location of each meeting changes, so contact a council
member if you are interested in attending.
Rebecca Wall